I am just beginning on ionic and am starting with the premade sidemenu template project. I’d like to edit the side menu button to look more like android i.e ion-android-drawer icon and left aligned logo. Where is the code that sets the menu button?

If you are looking to left align the logo I would check out the nightly builds. Ionic beta 14 is changing the transitions and look and feel to be more native. With this version of Ionic it will automatically left align the title when you are on an android, but center it if you are on ios. The nightly builds are being worked on to fix all issues prior to releasing 14. You can get this code here: http://code.ionicframework.com/#nightly or if you’d rather wait until they release beta.14 it will have these features.